You might need to set $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true for that to take effect: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseDatabaseMessages
Peter Adams wrote: > Thanks. That is what i thought. however editing that page under my > MediaWiki install doesn't seem to make the change show up. I'm running > 1.13.1 . > > Also, MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpagedoesn't seem to be listed > under: http://recyclepedia.org/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages . > is that correct? > > Does getting this to work require something special also being added > to localsettings? > > -P- > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:46 PM, Remember the dot wrote: > > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Peter Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> How does one change the page title template used for main page? >>> >>> I saw that the latest version of mediawiki release notes mentioned a >>> property called 'Mediawiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage', however editing >>> that alone doesn't seem to do the trick. >>> >>> I'd prefer not to hack the template class/files if possible. >>> >> What do you mean by "template"? The contents of the <title> element of >> the main page can be overridden with MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage >> - that's all there is to it. See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage for an >> example. >> >> -- >> Remember the dot >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l